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Out There: Boarding school blues PDF Print E-mail
by Herb Keinon, The Jerusalem Post

On a hill some 90 seconds from my front door sits a fine religious Zionist yeshiva high school. It has good teachers, nice classrooms, and even a basketball court. It looks perfect, and my sons should naturally want to go there.

No such luck. Why should they roll out of bed and into class, when they could travel far and wide to enjoy the same pleasure?

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In Algeria, a Tug of War for Young Minds PDF Print E-mail

By Michael Slackman, New York Times

ALGIERS — First, Abdel Malek Outas’s teachers taught him to write math equations in Arabic, and embrace Islam and the Arab world. Then they told him to write in Latin letters that are no longer branded unpatriotic, and open his mind to the West.  Malek is 19, and he is confused.

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The web that time forgot PDF Print E-mail

by Alex Wright, International Herald Tribune

On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a narrow street in the northeast corner of town. It feels like a fittingly secluded home for the legacy of one of technology's lost pioneers: Paul Otlet.

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Stolen Knowledge PDF Print E-mail

by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, Work in Progress

"A very great musician came and stayed in [our] house. He made one big mistake . . . [he] determined to teach me music, and consequently no learning took place. Nevertheless, I did casually pick up from him a certain amount of stolen knowledge". [Rabindrath Tagore quoted in Bandyopadhyay, 1989: 45]

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